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05-28-2010 08:16 PM

slow'n'steady

I've been running the Pro-Comp on my SBF for over a year now with an MSD 6A and haven't had any problems. It's a nitrous motor putting about 500~ to the wheels...

05-28-2010 05:09 PM

Custom10

wait it too is a skip supplied not summit I still want to know however, I am leaving mine in, a million gear heads can't be wrong.

05-28-2010 05:01 PM

Custom10

Another thread is asking about another suspiciously similar HEI from summit his has fancy clear cap, wants to know about vac can adjustment, so do I, if we figure out what type of advance can adjustment they are either when or how much it puts in or both we can cover half the HEI can adjustments questions on the planet...mass production madness Hippie is there a prize for the right answer? lol

05-28-2010 04:33 PM

Hippie

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jr. Mechanic

Should have gotten some pictures.

I can do that but not until next week, my buddy is racing this weekend. I'm going to cover the area on each distributor where the MSD label is, take side by side pics with both in the shot and then you guys tell me which is which. I'll probably start a new post. It should be interesting.

05-27-2010 09:34 PM

Jr. Mechanic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hippie

I took my spare "Skip White" HEI down to my buddy's shop today. He just bought a new MSD Street Fire HEI so we decided to do a side by side comparison. If you peeled the little "Street Fire" sticker off his none of us would have been able to tell the difference. They were I-D-E-N-T-I-C-A-L except for the packaging and price. Mine was in a clear plastic blister inside the dorky no name pink box and his was in a styrofoam packagng inside a box with fancy graphics and MSD plastered all over it, that is the ONLY difference. Take it for what it's worth but I paid $49.99, he paid $129.99 and he is PO'd!

Should have gotten some pictures.

05-27-2010 07:17 PM

Custom10

roger that amigo

05-27-2010 06:50 PM

Hippie

Quote:

Originally Posted by Custom10

Could it be that we are heading towards a user only north America were it all comes from "over there" ......

We're just a few "dominoes" from being there already.......Even when we think we're buying "homegrown" products we probably aren't.

05-27-2010 06:29 PM

Custom10

I knowledgeable bud of mine once ask me if mine was a MSD, maybe there is no difference, maybe it is the same unit? yea-sh more out sourced cheap labour profit blindness? Could it be that we are heading towards a user only north America were it all comes from "over there" and we should just accept this and bolt it on....crap but I have one...I digress

05-27-2010 05:00 PM

Hippie

I took my spare "Skip White" HEI down to my buddy's shop today. He just bought a new MSD Street Fire HEI so we decided to do a side by side comparison. If you peeled the little "Street Fire" sticker off his none of us would have been able to tell the difference. They were I-D-E-N-T-I-C-A-L except for the packaging and price. Mine was in a clear plastic blister inside the dorky no name pink box and his was in a styrofoam packagng inside a box with fancy graphics and MSD plastered all over it, that is the ONLY difference. Take it for what it's worth but I paid $49.99, he paid $129.99 and he is PO'd!

05-25-2010 12:33 PM

Jr. Mechanic

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt167

well as it seems, it's a 50/50 chance for a $50 part.. I'd much rather spend $90 on a known good part than a 50% chance of wasting $50

Wasting money isn't what concerns me, White offers a Lifetime warranty on the dizzys sold by them. What concerns me is that if the gear or bearings are of inferior quality, the dizzy could grenade at high RPM's and destroy my entire engine.

I'm just not convinced the White dizzy is any different than the Summit or Jegs version.

05-25-2010 12:29 PM

matt167

well as it seems, it's a 50/50 chance for a $50 part.. I'd much rather spend $90 on a known good part than a 50% chance of wasting $50

05-25-2010 12:12 PM

Custom10

I also have one of skips 50 dollar HEI's and have not had any issues with it what so ever, it was on my old 350 now a 383, works fine and seems to be well built. The box it came in was brand marked TSP or total street performance and yes made in china, claims to be a 65ooo volt coil. Anyhow so far so good.

05-25-2010 10:09 AM

my87Z

i can't lie i bought one from skip white a while back for my motor before i knew much about pro comp, and it didn't say pro comp on site either but it does say it on the box. mine was more like 60.00 and i have been running it on a street/strip 385 for almost a year now with no problems. even though it has worked for me, knowing what i know now about pro comp i probably wouldn't buy another

05-25-2010 09:11 AM

Jr. Mechanic

The one from Skip White actually doesn't say ProComp anywhere. I'd like to know who manufactured it though, as well as the Summit and Jegs units.

05-25-2010 08:42 AM

1932bantam

got one in my ford works perfect

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